yesBoot

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by yesBoot 5y ago
The state has an obligation to the people. Not some people who don’t like the state anymore. I’d feel this way if it was left leaning folks who want the liberal regions to join California. It’s not about “these people” at all for me except
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by yesBoot 5y ago
It’s not that the laws could not enable this, but none do. They have free agency. Why would the state reshape itself to satisfy people who are prisoners to their own psychosis alone?
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by yesBoot 5y ago
Why should the rest of Oregon change to satisfy voters of a non-binding resolution? They can get a Uhaul and go. Why bother putting real costs on the state to appease people with freedom of agency already?
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by yesBoot 5y ago
It does not matter. They have no power in our system to simply upend norms as they choose. They can pack up and move themselves if they don’t like it. The onus is not on everyone else to cater to them. It’s to abide laws as they are written
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by yesBoot 5y ago
The post I replied to was plainly written. If there’s nuance and context intended it should be communicated. There is no “rule of majority”. Questioning what should be if they’re simply a majority is just not allowed given our system.
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by yesBoot 5y ago
Rule of law, not majority. It may look that way should “one side” or the other control an official political body, but at least for now, we still abide election laws insuring the “rule of law” bit.
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by yesBoot 5y ago
Why must drugs be illegal? Is it everyone else’s responsibility to protect you and your sensibilities? It hasn’t prevented folks from consuming them, or becoming addicted. If I’m childish for the use of a euphemism, what would you call livi
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by yesBoot 5y ago
What’s great is all these exceptional, gritty people will put the work and expectations on everyone instead of simply moving to Idaho themselves.
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by yesBoot 5y ago
For most folks in Portland, pandemic aside, it’s been life as usual. I have yet to encounter lefties in my SE hood terrorizing anyone. Plenty of Trump caravans last year, waking us up, shooting guns. All from outside the city. Sure violence
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by yesBoot 5y ago
The war on drugs put people in prison for emotional belief those people were morally inferior. It rightly so should be abolished. To be replaced with trained medical help, detox programs, and a conversation about morality not tethered to su
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by yesBoot 5y ago
you’re all over the map talking about grandparents moving out (which implied to me you meant blood relatives), now you’re on about an social wide norm of random old people. But since you mention it, I DO have a “random old person” watching
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by yesBoot 5y ago
Point to where I wrote they had to live with the family?
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by yesBoot 5y ago
Anecdotal, but all my elders who committed to supporting their grand kids; taking them to soccer and such, lived on their own into their 90s. The ones that died before 80 had turned into hermits, spending their last few months in industrial
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by yesBoot 5y ago
“Retirement” is a recent invention. Before the last generation or so, the elderly moved into family support roles. Given that we’re bending over backwards to inflate the wealth of older investors, deflating the buying power of the younger g
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by yesBoot 5y ago
Population decline was greater in 2018 and 2019 than 2020. Even then it was tenths of a percent. Are sure “exodus” is the right word?